Teen brains are the kind of brain that you once had during the onset of puberty until as late as your 20th
birthday. This kind of brain makes the newly sexually active teen seek emotionally charged activities, thus increasing risk-taking behavior. Furthermore, MRI devices has also revealed that while the adults were using their prefrontal cortex to understand the expressions, teens were using their amygdala. The amygdala is responsible for inducing emotions and impulses, not
logic and rational reasoning. In conclusion, while it is true that the size of our brains doesn’t change much beyond our 6th
birthday, its under-the-hood workings are not
done developing until the age of 25.
During my
teen years, my brain was all about impulse and emotion; I often
made decisions based on how I felt instead of thinking them through—classic
teen brain behavior!